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Published by the Seceretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, this is the first part of a Global Assessment of the Links between Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services. The authors listed here are the Lead Authors of this report which draws upon contributions from a number of other contributing authors. The citation format for this publication is as follows:

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